Im. .; ,..'.. .... -fat -. .'.....-.J1 t?i ;m;7jft?-' ",- yiMi. i pjuypn i i-wr-,-, . t n - '. f TT" " V 3 si ,. , ; l.Trtyj . Slefrcjer w ' MOTORTRUCK SECTION n SECTION 4 yi yOL. V.-T-NO. 159 Publlihcd Dally Kj-rcpt Hynd.j-. Bub.crlj.llon Price 0 a Yc.r by Mall Copyright. lam. .by Publlq ledger Company. PHILADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1919 Entered m sjeciinil-cinns Miller ht tht Poslnrflce. at Philadelphia, Pa., Under the Art of March 8. 187t, PRICE TWO CENTS' ENGINEERING GENIUS SEEN A T TRUCK SHO W IN MOTOR TRANSPORT CAMERA PROVES IMPORTANT PART MOTORTRUCKS PLAYED IN WAP PENNSYL VANIA ADOPTS y - i3 Hi GREAT ROADS SYSTEM tt fyZ FOR NEEDS OF FUTURE 5s POINTS SOLUTION C- ,J, .f! -., !l V "' '"l ,Vl. r vl , , - ,k .r I " '-'V W iS-,, r,"' --. " T - ' . -V j .". - .&: .. ,j r ' a m JgHRMF ff.'L ubltr wruck ' - -ie;: tci o ' ' ucuiuy ;p Manufacturers Warn Pros pective Purchasers of 1919 Car Shortage , Labor and Material Costs Will Keep Up Commer cial Vehicle Prices MOTOR EXPRESS TO REDUCE H.C.L. S.v Hundred Miles of High-M .-. , -iW7fl nays to lie limit by next J y-o&l Winter v"--1 j1 r r,? Modern transportation vehicles In tlia highest degree of engineering per fection and efficiency, and farm tract ors that have been bo doveloi.?d as to reduce manual labor In -arrlculture to a minimum are the headline' attrac tions at the motortruck show In the Commercial Museum, Thirty-fourth .street below Spruce. The exposition opened Monday morning at 10 o'olock and will run .continuously until 10:30 o'clock Sat 'urday night. It Is being held under the auspices of the Philadelphia Au tomobile Trade Association, which sponsored the passenger-car show last week, and Is Indorsed by the Motor-" truck Association of this city. ( Among the fifty-two makes of (trucks exhibited, every, typo of com mercial car from the llcrit doltverv wagon to the dreadnoughts of the ' road, such as contributed so larcelv 'to the defeat of Germany In tho war, Js represented on the floor. Sixty exhibitors are showing trucks, two We demonstrating tractors of tho cat erpillar type, three are displaying com plete truck units, one a trailer and ten are showing accessories. Demand Exceeds Supply Prospective purchasers of coin- mercia! cars', who-' at the opening , of the show in some Instances hesitated to closo deals In nntlclpn- tlon of an early drop in prices yester day were clamoring for assurances from manufacturers'and dealers alike that they would bo able to deliver 'even a part of their orders within the next few months. Manufacturers gen- erailly made no secret of the fact that , . a I 'scarcely any of their plants have yet gotten back to full production, and a few are still engaged on government ,war contracts. ' As a result of this situation the siupply of motortrucks, during 1919 will ' Mot even approximately fill the de- "mantl. Aside from underproduction, I . .the high costs of labor In the automo- ' I bill nlnnts At the countrv. and of mate- ! 'rials, the manufacturers say, will keep "The cost of shipping by rail, lnclud the' present prices up indefinitely. They Ing tho haulage from plants to terminal ' advised business men who are content- and delivery in Philadelphia Is 30'i plating purchases of trucks that the i cents per hundredweight. The boat Cost entire output of many factories has Is' 32 3 cents per hundrewelght. beinc1 T... nlnn.1.. .,.1,1 mi mnnldo Iti nil. i it.. .1 .. . '. jvc-eii uncaui owiu uui iiiumim . j.u- ; mUre man tue rail cost because of a ' vance, and thnt the product of other j longer haul to and from the docks at plants is being absorbed as rapidly as I hotb ends. The trucl: cost is thirty-five helr trucks are put on the market. cents per hundredweight. It Is evident . 'ot on any previous occasion has from these figures what trucks would do ;, Ihere been assembled In tills city such to relieve the congestion In Xew York, a variety of makes, capacities and de- ( which at this' time Is very great, feigns 1n commerce-carrying vehicles, as ; "Shipping by motortruck means e ' were gathered together for the fifth anr press speed with very little iinore than nual truck show, hi their attractive ordinary freight cost. Delays at ter orray over 53.000 square feet of floor i minals cause congestion. This is the space, these leviathans of the road are r feature In transportation that motor no less lnterestlnc than tho rich and . truck hauling does awav with. A i,,n. elegent vehicles that delighted thousands t during the passenger car exposition. The same decorations of tlio hall were re tained from last week. An orchestra ''furnishes music dally. ' While the war' may not have caused entirely radical changes In motortruck designs, Its earmarks, "nevertheless, are noticed In many cases where models have been strengthened and built more substantially than at any time In the past SerTlce, Stability, Comfort cvte. stnbllltv and comfort are the tiling, emphasized at the Wortruck j,i,nw Tie comfort of the driver Is now a , prime consideration of truck builders. Motortrucks routes across the country have made It necessary to cater ,to the comfort- ot the men who operate them. Cushions that Insure easy riutng nave lecn Installed in virtually ail mtujes,. while some of the real big trucKs the kind usetl In the cross-country trips have built a comfortable enclosure around the driver's seat, one manufac- turer going as far as to build In a small stove connected with the exhaust, so the driver can have hot food durlns nIS "'P' Blectrlo lights and starters are be- coming a feature of all models. Last .year these improvements were 'notice- able on comparatively few or tne com mercial models. This yetir's show sees ''them on virtually all or tie smaller F$fr trucks, with some of the bigger ye - r. hides falling in line wit, similar im- T f rirnvmn.i nnn ntnr nlanntnfr in tin so. Accessory dealers are featuring- built on starting systems ror air models. Competition at the show, though not obvious to the outsider, was keen. The best brains of the modern world had been put into the development of the Continued on Tate Twentj-two, Column One Sunday Jaunts in Auto Trucks Popular Sport 1 iklns half the, neighborhood out 'for a Sunday airing is a new use which has been found for heavy trucks, which Is expected to be pop ular during the approaching sum mer, j A few hours' motor trip over -some of the' fine boulevards near the congested centers almost any fair Sunday last year demonstrated that this use for tjrucris had gained a foothold. Pleasure parties by the score found their way to beach, lake, or picnic grounds aboard the big- trucks. The big pneumatic tires are revolutionizing heavy mo tor transportation, making long' ' joirrneys at good speed possible at less expense. Truck ownera tfho have the genial touch of humanity in their veins may easily flnd'an outjet for this feeling by Using their vehicles to give others pleasure, and. there Is also opportunity for truck own era tomake money. Normally, bus .Inesa trucks lie Idle on Sundays and L'liolldayfl, when they might be used 'for excursion purposes. t T& .'' ' ''; . t ' OF FREIGHT JAM Relief From Congestion at New York Is Seen in Motor Transport RAIL SHIPMENTS SLOW 1 Trucks Carry Big Loads in Faster Time, Says Edwin L. Lewis Freight transportation by motortruck lines la nearly eight times as fast be tween Xew York and Philadelphia as the ordinary movement of shipments by rail and water, and could be utilized to relieve the freight congestion at these lwo voH&' "-W '" Kd"' J" T-wli. juuuuKei ot wits ireiKiu transportation department of the Packard Motorcar Company. I Congestion of freight shipments at thol J,ort of J""ew York at tlle Present time '" "ur6e "m" ,l "8 IJCe Ior mani' months, resulting In long and costly de lays. Mr. tawls said today that mort, general use of motortruck express lines between the metropolis and this city would solve the problem and probably bring & great volumo of shipping busi ness to this po'it which now goes through N'ew York. "There nre at tills time eleven lines tot mnlnWriml.'u mm...,, I., .. .. .1-11.. rehedule between l'hilndelnhi.i and X on;, said .Mr. Lewis, "while at least six other lines are making two or three trips a week nn tchcdiilp. Thus more than twenty carloads of freight move in and out of Philadelphia" by motorttuck dally. Trucka Jlnko Fast Time "There Ik nn interesting comparison between motortruck shipments and rail or boat freighting. The average time tAlllltAr1 1,1, .ff t-t.-lf.-. - equired by mil. Including delays at f,c v'uuuiju unu I'm uoeimua term iimih. Ii Is i,i nours. strange to say. the boa boat route is raster, taking forty-four hours. However, boats .sail only twice a week, and, due to the congestion, the material often lies on docks- two or three davs. A six-ton truck makes the trip from Brooklyn to, Philadelphia in eleven and a half hour... tortruck could make nearly night trips from Xew York to Philadelphia whllo a freight shipment is making one trip by rail." DEMAND HIGH-GRADE CARS . .-" OUSIIICSS ileil Want Hest ill Mo-! tortrucks Obtainable Business men nowadays no longer purchase a eheniite constructed motor- i ii-uuk ratner man ' """""?. V,al costs tlicm a few dollars . ,., .,.. : ' .. "." - "hti-Bimio iniy a lilEh-itrai e h. PhllSeuSru Oncir"""' ' I ,. ,7" - "-". they want the best money can buy and , Jltey have the money to buy with. 'l)ur- sU Past year demands for OMC racks have, been Increasing-dealers iJf1"1:e?rIt-r1VcKf1 in, ,lle worst way an1 wc The tiMP faeinVieB-.U ,.,-i.,i (iny HTld nBht fo ,h ""'"'. ,l i.i, !.- ... -vyr,v'nfi i we could do was to ask our dealers to be patient and wait. "Trucks are now beginning to'come to j us. and soon we hope to be able to I get caught up on our back orders and our current demands, USrotV the advantage of the motortruck. All Indications are that hundreds of horses' I Jvl" ,'ose meir jods or unci other work, I ft ' ." "j r""."" Y.V'2 ... .. , . ' L 7. ; :. . , '.' ulu have gone to war If it 1iad continued are now going stravgnt into business." . ; TfrhTTTTATl ATAWTIXT'G OrrCrA717CVO JU,S fj JL JU.XJJT i.YXJUEiyiV O X U &A1V JZfkDtJ ' A RECONSTRUCTION PROBLEM Interests Controlliiif Motor Traffic, iVoiu Iiefiardedis Fundamental to Civilization, Urged to Back Plan for Network of Federal Highways It Is reconstruction with a vengeance this business of scheming a layout of national highways that will serve the nation's business to the best advantage, says Automobile Topics. The cow paths ot tradition were amazingly Intricate; the succeeding highways , often little i million dollars' avallablo under the fed more effective. .Improved roads, built ' eral aid plan, the existing system has according to definite plan, have suffered sjven birth to 760 projects, concsived by from the impulses of local Interests. , the various states and approved by the However honestly and forcefully the , government. These 760 projects would plans ot the states have been conceived. Produce 7800 miles of Improved road at they serve the traffic needs ot local cen-i "d estimated cost of fUry-slx million ters, Thus there' have been evolved a dollnrs or more, their approval by the series of good road plots that, however useful Integrally, could not be success fully hooked up, says Automobile Topics. . .Conceiving me mgnvvny n uivcij ' of traffic, traffic as the flux of business, land business as the basis of national I life, it follpvvs that, a series or aiscon nected highway systems cannot promote the general welfare, but only that of the most advanced localities. Through the vision of the automobile men who projected the Lincoln high way and through the enterprise that has developed the othe. successful through highway associations, there has been given to the country a demonstra tion of the advantage that follows the trunk line highroad. It Is virtually tlie ka'me sort of advantage that follows I the trunk line railroad. It is so for It draws into broad and favorable chan nels the' maximum flow of tr.fflo bf wen ImDortant centers, quite regard less .ofwurely tommuntty Interests, but rather. In .deference to Inter-community needs." . t ' 95m ' --9MHBM6m-M I MMMlMWgllftliL ' iH-P'lS! -eaMM?PS -R-PRBIP!H--iil w ' LLLPLMLl-LLLLLr-TB rllliPBTrTI0 : 3H?SH r kBMiki v ! BBFL17feL f!lMWB38MP'ljl8 l ?sBBk!!83Ki3 r'i9i'T9M- i;lP'EB'P5Ki K'BwliiKKi,H!iB5H",AiB riP''S--&lB!!SS FB! ! lv'?PBiHfiffi 1 .:-.- TMMlnWPi."3'ia3flBJHHf iSlB3RWWSiS i filKii iPPlHMiiMP'WBlMiiiii tHHIHUi liliMBlniti iTlifwTWInnFr T IF T " jir'iiMHIlHBHlF 1M ' : . i Qai8sSRwtMssM;JWisaiK SiwalKIWIIsliSil. ..; Hundreds of the great leviathans overseas. Victorious movements WANT NO CHANGE IN JERSEY LAWS Motortruck Owners Satis fied With Legislation on Commercial Cars ALL NEEDS ARE MET Motortruck owners of Xew Jersey aie ery well satisfied with the laws govem- lne commercial vehicles In their state, ami aH .. conseauence they will not ask ' Ihelr Legislature for any changesvat the , pT,T-?'8,rf ,, ( , . This stand of tlie truck owners sup- nolts the position taken by. .state .Motor i Vehicle fommlssioner William I,. Dill, of Xew Jersey, with whom they are co operating In all matters pertaining to the regulation of the commercial vehicle. When Commissioner Dill took up the tnsu ot enacting a law to regulate mo- ' 'ortrucks he was obliged to blaze a new trail, as the country was without any , ns Eull, alul ho unolnled i 8UL" Ia",s "8 ,l K,' ","" " ""P01"1 ! A clmlysl" ot co.unty engineers to 'confer with truck owners and tire peo nle ns well as mail constructor!;. In order to meet all phases of the situation. Thus tho question was handled In a ' broad-guaged manner "and from a tech I nlcal standpoint. The original act has I been amended in some particulars' so i that It stands at present almost an Ideal. There are several features of the New Jersey law which stand out pre-emi nently. The methods of examination I '" u umrin iiiciibu lump, j&c: UUU1 i . Continued on Pare Twentr-one, Column Two -- -- State (and federal aid under) exist ing law have favored local highway development, placed a prtmium on local Initiative, and at tlie same time penal ized the backward community by per mitting It to remain In its. own self-lm- I nnnoH lontaHnn VlMtl, ,,ni.r,p.l . t .Int.... autuoriiics carrying tue potential re lease of about $48,600,000 of government money. Vet, during the last year, only ten of. these projects we're completed, In volving somewhere around forty miles of new road, and only a mjlllon and. a half of dollars was actually turned oyer to the states. This, briefly, Is, what has excellent though that' plan may be be yond a doubt. Now comes theinovement for a net work of highways created under a fed eral commission,, possessing' sufficient authority to plan and execute tho ays ton In the Interests of 'Interstate com merce, whfch Is to say, the common In-J leresi or an ousipess activity. This project, as supported by the Townseml bill, now In the hands of the Sena,te Committee on postofflces and Post Ko'ads, demands the most careful study and Insistent support of every automo bile' man. Already tho bill has a most Impressive cntinur en rsi'iBettto,Coi(iwn Tw of llic road, Iiullt at a Pennsylvania plant of the American and Allied forces at the Weiaht nf Mntmrhnwh With Loads by Law to Philadelphia Automobile Men and Backers of Dithrich Bill in Legislature Reach Com promise on Disputed Provisions Hy J Staff C'omwpoiirciit llnrrlabtirg, March lb. -Representatives of tlie motor truck Industry and members of tlie subcommittee of the House Committee on 1 toads, have reach ed a compromise on the Dithrich bill, regulating motor trafllc, and the measure s llp today. for first reading in tlie House The bill-was reported out of commit tee following a conference between Uov trnor Kproul, Senator Buckmau and Representative Dithrich. Both legisla tors had Introduced motor traffic bills. The Dithrich bill, which was framed by the Pennsylvania Jlotor Federation, was decided upon as the administration measure. As amended, tills bill limits the .weight ot trucks, combined weight of vehicle and load, to 20,000 pounds. They must not bo more than ninety inches wide nor more thaji twenty-six feet long. Manufacturers must place In' a consplcu- ous place on each truck Hie weight of the truck and Its load capacity. It will bo a misdemeanor to overload trucks. The bill, as amended, provides that the highway commissioner, at his discretion, may revoke both the registration of tlle truck and tho driver's license for violations ot the law. The maximum speed permitted by the bill is thirty ml'es an hour. The bill likewise regu lates registration fees as follows: Hrglktrutlon Keen Fixed Less than D000 pounds, by horsepower rating, $10; 3000 to 4000 pounds, $15; 1000 to 0000 pounds, $23; 6000 to 80UO pounds, $40; 8000 to 10,000 pounds, $60, and 10,000 lo 13,000 pounds, $100. Pleasure cars will-have (o pay heav. ier license fees also. The fee will be at the rate of fifty cents pet hjrsepower. with a minimum fee of $10. The bill as ready for submission to the House was framed after conferences between the committee ami representa tives of the following organization: The Motortruck Association of Ph ladolphln, the Philadelphia Automobile Trade As sociation, the Automobile Accessories Buslrfess Association, the Pennsylvania Warehouse and Van Owners' Association and the Motortruck Owners' Association of Philadelphia. E. J. Berlet, president of the Stability Motors Company, east ern distributors of Atterbury trucks, waB spokesman for the motortruck men. ANCESTOR OF AUTOTRUCKS "Road Locomotive" Built in 1877 Made Ten Mile9 nn Hour 1 -.-, .,.! .. . ,ko . ,.ii..1.- al.ntv nf tl. ' Selden trucks by the Sclden Philadelphia colleges will offer courses In motortruck . wl,,i?,1' '"Jl mII .Tthat'TlrUcutar Sales Company. 34JB North Broad street, .mechanics apd pperatlop." says W. -ft Wth7A.on"VwJl, m.", recalled to the minds of pioneer aujo- Clark Orleb, local Kissel ulstrlbutor. 1)nvo causcd such reduction, ns well as mobile men here tho once famous "road ' "In fact, there have alreadv been sav-lt)ic reason which may have caused the ocomotlve, Dtnii in jii oy ueorse jj. " ''"-," i- - w.t uro ?iiT of noehester V V and which t-tlen "hool np In how to care for-and op Selden, of Rochester, -. v., .ana wnicn ferat(w motor trucks to the drivers of 1. ...1,.,!a,M r.f tt,A nntverfllt mn- VtrncnaAl Ivn rf nfkll mirnnri " tin nJil.J was Brttlluto-tiic, ,..w ,..., ...u- tnr'rueksrof the present day. Jr qu vvoum ne Burpr seu now sclen- tonruckst tue preseui tiaj. j m truc onerutlon hag becomei Forty years ago the Inventor of theu htnr1e(1 wnen 0Wners. In checking up first motortruck never dreamed of 0191 their drivers.- foupd that while- some at.tomoblle of the present of a touring-'handled their trucks at an unusually low ... .W n,ild run flftv miles nn ho.tr operating expense, other drivers more pr a racing mode) that, would go two.and trebled their upkeep over the. same mll ;amlnuU.. . nilles ja minute.. . for the army, photographed while llie were parked front frequently depended on ihc performances of A to Be Limited 26,000 Pounds ln the conferences partluularoibjectioii was raised 'to (King truck lengths nt twenty feet. It was suggested that twenty-eight feet would be more eco nomical not only for operators but for customers. This was part cularly true, It was said b Ilerlet, In the case of moving vans, where the entire contents of an eight or ten room house could ba moved in a tvvi nty-elght-foot truck, but two twentv -foolers would be u ttulred. . Minimum VVelRbt Mlgffrnted It was also suggested that there be no operation of truck weights, by chassis, body and b load, but that a maximum weight be fixed of 28,000 pounds for chassis, body and load. Berlet suggested that a great many trucks are now haul ing londs of a gross weight of 30,000 pounds. Tills incudes car and load. with the present law prohibiting a gross of moreMhan 21,000. He suggested that ', k" ' ' advlsabll ty of enforcing a 28,000ound I law ,.ather thlm a i.ooo-nojind not en. I rr,.,i ,j ,j-,.i,i ,.. ,, ! "-"-" "iiij .nuito niir adopting a 28,000-pound ruling. The automobile people objected to a proposed width limitation or ninety Inches. They admitted that two nlnety slx.lnch trucks wtie crowded when passing on a sixteen-foot road, but suggested that future construction w II remedy that situation. -A better defi nition of the term "nailer" was sug. gested. I'frnotiiifl tif Jielexittlon The delegation in addition to the spokesman was composed of Thomas Quirk, president Motortruck Association; lJoh" u- "owley. chairman of the legg latlon vuiuiiituvc. .ituivi ii utit 4bSOCia- I A. Ii Maltby, piesident of Hie ......!, .. Atn,.. I. t , tlon ; Philadelphia Automobile Trade Assocla tlon ; ft. Ij. Lewis, manager of the trans portnt'on department. Packard Motorcar Company of Philadelphia ; W. H. Met calf, president of the Automoblfe Acces. sorles Business Association ; H. B. Har per, of the Overland-Harper Company; B. I.ubsc, president of the Gnrago-'OwVi-crs' Association; It. W. Ilayden, vice president of the Motortruck Owners' As sociation; II. fc". Sherlz, executive secre- i tnry of the Motortruck Owners' Assnebi. tlon.'und Buell O. M Her, vice president of the Pennsylvania Warehouse and Van Owners' Association. , TO TRAIN TRUCK DRIVERS University Course in Mcchnnica . an Early Probability "T nrsrllnt Hint annn unlv.r.lll.. , rcutes." w routes.' il to await shipment merican motortrucks TRUCK OPERATIONS i nm . .w. -r .-. I I K Alllf VJ I U tj W I tx 1 UrULrlJ (Oljlljll V'Li Commercial Car Owners' Association Absorbed in Its Problems OPPOSE PENDING BILLS y WILLIAM H. UIKU'IT President of the Motortruck owners' As sociation anil president of the Federal Transit Company The Motortruck Owners' Association if Philadelphia lias before it a very busy und active program. This association, composed of opera tors and owners of motortrucks, while voung, has made a great stride In the i activities It has performed. It Is now engaged In giving close at tention lo many uucMions of legislation pending. Through the, legislative com mittee It has studied the various b.!l that have been presented and has tought to find to what evtent the provisions would interfere with the development of motortruck transportation in this stale, The association is collecting data re pectlng tlie sizes and weights of trucks In operation and with the view to the future use and development of trucks. ,nat tlle development or tlie highways may 'if Kept m,c,e ,vlth '" l"1p l,el'""r. over them or the proper character of vehicles'. Whllo the question or legislation Is ' one of the preliminary objects of the as- ...,.,,. ..,, , ... i..i.i ,, I time In Its' consideration, It has not lost llnlA l.i Itu i.r.nal.laiit l.tt I, li-ia ,..., l..bt i ' Conthiueil tin Pace Ttventj-iine, Ctihiran 3 GENERAL PRICE REDUCTIONS ON CARS DISTANT PROSPECT , Determine It' nether till Vers Mas I Itey Urder at t'rtces consistent H un nxisiing uikii Labor and llv G. A. KISSEL ! T., . ,. ! Piefc'dent Wssel Motorcar ornpany Will automobile motortruck prices see i a blir reduction within the next two or three months'.' Win- Is It that some manufacturers . linie aheadv announced price ledue- ,i, ii ,. ,.i" ' nuns wtiitt: oiuiria ... .." for producing. Is It a question of sacrificing quality j .-0urth Sales and general expenses, to meet a demand for low prices, or These Items make up the cost, re were the prices raised out of propor- , gardless of the kind of product pro- t'011 during the war These are some of Hie questions that are now being asked both manufacturers mid dealers. Vnlets tlte- are answered satisfactorily to the consumer there Is apt to be a misunderstanding that will prove detrimental to tho automotive In. dustry as u whole. The public In general Is very upt lo look nt the question of pi Ice. I. e., as to wr.etber or not retraction iuib oeen inuue ntltl If SO llOW lllUCll that reduction IS high prices before the reduction. Wliere 1110 ractory was Kent luniiins to 100 per cent capacity, either on reg- ular 'truck' or passenger vvork and the balance on war work,; this offset the big loss due to exorbitant overneau ex-, rwnsee, due to little, If any, production, It can readily ba seen that such com-, nanles will not be able to make sny Price changes so far as reductions are concerned, as there will b very , little A. C. Burch Suggests Use of J ruck Lines to bet Pro- ' (luce to Market D E V E N D S MIDDLEMAN Half of Farm's t rOdllClS Wasted Because of Slow Movement Bural motor express llne as a in aim of reducing the cost of living are ad vocated by . ('. Murch, vice president of tin (Mde iars Company, who sa tliat nil per cent of the produce raised In this country Is wasted because the growers cannot get It to a market Mr. Hindi is attending the truck show hem this week. Ill dcfonsi of tho middleman. Mr. Burch declared that Mho v.ist differ ence between the consumer's price and the farmer's price of produce In our markets Is due largely to wasteful transportation methods, causing spoilage on the way to market. Iliirai express lines, he ,"aid, would eliminate this waste, five the farmer more fur his ptniliife. and hi lag It within reach of , the ultimate consumer at leas cost. "llural epress companies offer an out let for an enormous pioduction of mo tortrucks In this country," said Mr. Dtncli. 'It is a good thing lo get be- low the surface and study any prospec tive uiaiket finin the inside. I believe in the motor express business because it .seems to me to be fundamentally right. "While not much given lo clouting sta tistics, there aie h couple of flgui es which seem so vlial to the motor truck Industry that I cannot forget them. Never llParlies Market Tlie Acricultuial Deiiaitmeiil I eporls j that only about Sti per cent of the pro i duce raised in tills country ever sees the market. The balance Is wasted !e- ause of inability lo get it to maiket and because transportation delays al low It to spoil on the way. "The rural motor evpress line will absolutely correct this trouble, shorten- ing the distance between purchaser ami 'consumer, and allow lug him to ship to the best market at the time when ids produce ought lo be shipped. "milher tremendously important set r.r oiviicnu i ii,,i'euses me. Kor everv do- wi ii,.....-. i lar which the consumer pays for food 1 this country, the fanner gets from There has been a great cry raised ( .Inst the middleman and tlie enor mous profit he makes. I don't believe iie Is responsible either for the high p-ire of fooil products or for the low price paid to the farmer. "We alwros will need tlie middle men, for food products must be dis tributed and stored until such time as the market calls fo" them. The vast dlffercme between the con sinner's price and the farmer's pr'.c is largely made up by the wasteful tran lurtatliiu method", by siiollng" on the ..-..,. I., iiinl.pt. I lie! tnnv be too many .'-.i,ii,.. tint tbls is only one more count against our present inadequate Iransno-tation methods. Ii bus been necessary to pass iooii produce through a great ininy hand" from farm to table, simply because of lnadeiUt'te transportation methods Will t'.llinlniile Waste "Tlie motortruck will eliminate this waste, giving the farmer more for bis nrn.iiice which be Is rightfully entitled to, and cutting tlie cost to the ultimate consumer t l.elleve that every man In tlie truck business should get behind the rural motor express proposition. "It Is lb" greatest outlet for t ibis country today. But It truck! won't grow to lite propo.-uuiis II milium ",,,rnn the truck industry Rets iirninii .-,- thusliistlcallv unless mamitai-iurers, .,.il .'a,n,o,ii si. I., mid county nuthorl't leu Hne up with the good road ...,.' niu.. .. . so tnat tlie country may nc flfa network of roads ovvr which id operate the rural express lines ... . .,. . ,, , Dealers Ire divine I Item Ii nut Material Costs change In raw material prices anil In labor conditions for some time to came. '''t,,,;,. ,nalallce. ,be elenients enter- ,.. ,.. ti.p c03. 0f any conimoillty I tint- i.o,t I... (MinimuM In, Hu follow S : I ".' - - I First Cost of material Second The direct labor for fabrl- eating such material. Third Factory expenses overhead tluced. In dissecting tlie nbove It will be easily understood that the basio ' material In the automobile is that of steel. It Is my opinion that tlie Item of ill put labor Is one that will ste mighty little change, if any. for a long tlmo lo come and possibly uevir. This is bo cause the standard living conditions and the way of living have been raised to a higher level, and It Is not the American snlrlt to have that reduced or curbed. This does not mean that In extreme cases where Inexperienced help on war work were earning exorbitant wages, any such wage standard will be main tained. The above outlines conditions as they t really exist, and from the consumer's i Ktnndnnlnt It reallv is a mntttti- for' nlm t0 figure out and nave confidence ' ( tne company with whom he Is doing , .business. By that I mean confidence In whether that factory Is giving him the product that be orders at a pn Ico con- gistent with labor and material, contli- tlons as they exist, and as (hey wjll exist for some time to come, and whether or not that product, so fr as Value. Is qpneerped, measures up to Govcmor Sproul Plahs (. n it t i ii it n ii e Hntitivt ?1i Throughout State - LKWIS S. SADLER Stale Highway (.'orr.mlsstoner ' M$ Durlmr the last three weeks huri. deeds of ner&ooa fmm nil eoeftnna f .- I'enneylvanla have visited the State Highway Department relative to ro-; ' posed to.id improvements. In one day there ere delegations and Individuals from twenty-one counties. it Is my belief that the great Inter est being taken In better highway by I'ennsylvanlans Is due simply to the fact that Governor .Sproul has an nounced (hat a definite program of' construction is to be laid out, and that this program will be followed un swervingly. The plans of Governor Sproul and the .State Highway Department In clude the following: Construction by the commonwealth of an arterial system of highways' to " form a network beneficial to the en-. tire state. The cost of building such a s.wstem will be met entirely by the state. Will Announce Koutes Soon Construction by the commonwealth and the counties and townships of the, state - the commonwealth to share to the limit of tho appropriations avail' Hb,e for this purpose of a secondary system of highways of great local Idit portative, these highways in combina tion with tlie primary system to form a network beneficial to the state Ht huge and to Individual localities. In this work the department relies upon the rciuntles and townships to put Into construction the money they would I have spent on the primary system had thev open called upon to do so. Within a few days definite anounce nient will 'be made of ttie highway routes -and portions of loutes which are ,to be Included in tho pr'mary system. The woik of construction will begin I promptly. Hlds have already been asked for the building of approximately, 105 miles.. The department hopes to be able to construct CuO or (JOU miles of per manent thoioughfare before next winter, Theie was a time when folks laughed at the suggestion that it permanent hlgli wn.v could be built. But It is no longer a laughing matter. Pennsylvania is go ing lo have loads of that class. We havV leti mimed to slop building roads that blow avvaj. We have stopped putting down a good-road Island hi a ribbon 'of mud. W are going to have contlnuou and pennanitiit highways Itnads That Will I.Hut Tlie money with which we will build nlir hr inui-r nvolAin ........ac. .. tl ' "1 "?', i'.'3. ?'!! 12? ""t0"',00" bml 1f"u? ""ed by jhe rutro,'1,htl,ty0v:a,rbsCr- l"e "0nd3 fU ,t would be criminal waMe were wtflo primary system comes from the build toads which would disappear be fore the maturity of the obligation 'we' have undertaken. it would be waste were these roads to be of a type 'demanding' costly and continuous maintenance We will build the maintenance Into litem at the start. The foundations w II be o, aucn a type that with a little care they will last for all time. Before we begin our construction we, will know what loads our roadi are to carrj and we w411 build our roads with ' an Idea of future recruit etnents. as well. We must lo a great extent anticipate the future. What Governor .Sproul and the State Highway Department plan for the state's' -primary system of roads many counties plan for the secondary i ,iads the great, er poitlou of the cost of wh'cli will be born by the co'intles and townships. They. too. will build roads which will stand up roads tlie life of which is, greater than the' life of the obligation undertaken to build them Mint Avoid Wii.tc Four j ears hence It will be possible to reach anj section of the stale over a haid-surfaced, durable thoroughfare. Out to do th s we must build nerman- "fUtlj ' as' "lat all road enthusiasts whether they be motor car owners, air. r'eiilturists or what not Impress upon the minds of the road builders tbelnecs- sity for permanence. r 'onstructln of any roads not permanent Is an economto waste. Heavier Automobile Penalties llitrrikliure, March 18. An Incease of penalties for any person operating an automobile or truck under a false num ber or without consent of the owner or running a car w'lose license has been re- voiiett is piovidetl in a bill Introduced by Mr Cox. I'iriadelphla. The tnaxl- mum pe-iaities aie made $iuoo fine or llitivu i'i iu 111 1 ill nt l.r,t It Truck Stiles Managers Meet Here April 11-12 Members of the .National Associa tion of Motortruck Sules Managers will meet at the Uellevue-Sivatford Hotel In annual convention Friday morning. April II. ami continue in session through the following nay. At a banquet to be given at 7:30 o'clock un tho evening of April 11 for accredited delegates and others associated with the automobile bus iness, speakers of national prom inence will address the gathering on subjects pertaining: to the post war program and of vital Impor tance to the automotive Industry. Following Is the program as an nounced today by the convention Sommittee: Friday morning, April 11 Busi ness session, for delegates only, Friday afternoon Uusiness ses. sion and general discussions, for delegates only, Saturday morning, April 12-r-Bus- lness session, open to those associ ated with the automobile lnaust,ry In the lied Itoom at tho Uellevue, , Many widely known automoilh(fo manufacturers and, dealers will at tend the convention. Covers will b I laia at tne oanquet rot $uo atMuk I . evrn'" J Jd 1 i ,ww A s?l m .V V' if m jtj XS iVi a Jetl -Jrl fl -"VI '! '! t.c .1 'k j: jv-i. i.: , ti 4 ' "' 'hi yt t'-j' I . "n -Jtf ;i .," -. 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